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NewCanadianMTurker t1_j9oivfa wrote

"No-Prize" seems like a strange name for an award. Is this an ironic award they send to subtly insult people who nitpick the details in their comics?

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adsfew t1_j9ol13t wrote

It was never given it out with contempt. I always interpreted the name as tongue-in-cheek because they weren't sending out an actual prize, so it was the No-Prize.

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AgentElman t1_j9p168s wrote

It was not supposed to be anything. The back of comics had a letters section and Stan Lee would respond to the letters. He would write "you won a No Prize". He was joking, but people would then write back saying they had not received it.

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MeadowmuffinReborn t1_ja6udtm wrote

No, it was just a tongue in cheek and cheap way to encourage readers to keep buying the comics.

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jamescookenotthatone OP t1_j9o8d36 wrote

I learned about this oddity from the Talking Simpsons Podcast, https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly90YWxraW5nc2ltcHNvbnMubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M/episode/MjRjOTNkZDUtYTliZC00OTg3LWI4ZjItZDk5YWZmMzNkM2E3?ep=14

Some Marvel employees were pretty stringent about what deserved a No-Prize, but not Macchio,

>Ralph Macchio (Daredevil): "The No-Prize is an honored Marvel tradition. Of course I give them away—for just about any old stupid thing. I have a million of them."[13]

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Ineedtwocats t1_j9p9ez4 wrote

AHA! I was going to ask if OP and I have been listening to the same podcasts.

suspicion confirmed.

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